Al-Kafi 5920

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Abdul Malik Bin Utba, from Is’haq Bin Ammar, (It has been narrated) from Abu Al-Hassan Musa^asws, said, ‘I said to him^asws, ‘There are near relatives of mine. I tend to spend upon some of them, and prefer some of them upon the others. So (when) the time for <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> comes up, can I give them from it?’ He^asws said: ‘They are deserving of it?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He^asws said: ‘(If) they are superior to the others, so give them’. I said, ‘So who is that necessitating upon me, from my near relatives until I cannot withhold the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> upon them?’ So he^asws said: ‘Your father, and your mother’. I said, ‘My father and my mother?’ He^asws said: ‘The two parents and the children’.

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